COMMEMORATIVE SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2017 SECTION JAY HATCH JAMES JONES JEFF BRADLEY QUAD-CITY SPORTS HALL OF FAME THE 2017 CLASS INSIDE: Honoring the 2017 class, plus bios of inductees from 1987 to 2016 SALUTE TO SPORTS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 | 7:30 P.M. | BETTENDORF HIGH SCHOOL Get back in the game with OS. Call 563-344-9292 to schedule an appointment. 00 1 H2 | SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2017 QUAD-CITY SPORTS HALL OF FAME 2017 CLASS | JEFF BRADLEY Bradley’s cycling career took him around world JIM MEENAN
[email protected] Jeff Bradley used to wait at the edge of the driveway as his dad, Mel, and older sister, Debie, rode off on their bikes on a training ride. Marlene Bradley, Jeff’s mother, remembers it all very well. Jeff, only 8 years old at the time, wanted so badly to join them. In about a year or so, he was soon riding with them on long training rides in a sport that 18 years later — in 1987 — would see him ride in the sport’s premier event, the Tour de France. Three years earlier, he was an alternate for the U.S. in the 1984 Olympics for the four-man team time trials event. FILE PHOTO Bradley, the premier cyclist in Jeff Bradley’s athletic career started the history of the Quad-Cities, as a speedskater. He was a junior will be enshrined May 3 in the national champion at age 10 in 1971 Quad-City Sports Hall of Fame and took fourth in the 5,000 meters in ceremonies at the 36th an- at the U.S.